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Editions du Griffon - Neuchâtel - Suisse, 1971. Portfolio with 10 loose prints as issued (27x27 cm / 11x11 inch each) printed in héliogravure on glossy paper. Printed in 1971. Impressive quality. Included in the catalogue raisonné. One plate with discoloring to paper edges else very good set. 1st edition.

Semiotext(e), USA, 2007 (1980). Tall hardcover in super octavo, illus heavy boards, yellow & lettering to spine, xvi + 300pp + unpaginated graphic novella to rear. Illustrated. Initials to free front endpaper, else clean and very good copy of this very hard to find publication. Semiotext(e) foreign Agents Series 1. Re-issue of the legendary examination of the Marxist Autonomism movement that emerged in Italy in the 1960s, "the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West." Contributors include Toni Negri, Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, Guy Debord, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze etc.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. 8vo. Publishers hardcover, with protected dustjacket. 320 pages, with 198 color and 28 b/w illustrations. Fine clean attractive copy. 1st edition. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was one of the most influential artists of his day, producing work derived from “the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching rationality” according to his friend, the writer Joachim Gasquet. Honoring tradition while also challenging it, his example made possible the advances of numerous younger artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque, thereby paving the way for the emergence of modern art. Cézanne’s novel approach was evident as much in his drawings and watercolors as in his oil paintings. While the hundreds of drawings that the artist left behind in his sketchbooks confirm the centrality of this medium to his artistic practice, his watercolors from the 1890s were undertaken as works of art in their own right. These latter efforts—most of them landscapes and still lifes executed in Provence in the South of France—rank among the finest achievements in this difficult medium from any period. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the development of Cézanne’s style through his works on paper. Diverse in subject matter and execution, his drawings and watercolors include copies of other masters’ works, studies of his immediate family and their domestic surroundings, and preliminary ideas for finished compositions. They reveal Cézanne as someone deeply committed to devising a process for comprehending and recording the world as he saw it. The result is some of the most absorbing art ever created.

Paris: Onestar Press, 2003. Tall slim 8vo in glossy wraps as issued 140 x 225 mm. 150 pages. A little dent to top of spine else only minimal shelfwear, and clean and fine.  First edition, 1st printing, one of only 250 numbered copies (No. 127). Rare Artist's book by Lawrence Weiner incorporating texts and diagram drawings. Plays on maritime theme and passages. "That of which there is no trace does not enter into the equation,” reads one of the central panels in Deep Blue Sky Light Blue Sky. This is a book of traces – linguistic, symbolic, photographic – and the equations in which they arrange and rearrange themselves like so many limbs in a love triangle".

Paul P. Appel, Publisher, Mamaronack, NY, 1963. Tall heavy 4to in original green clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 516 pages. Very light wear at corner tips and spine ends. Tight, sound and unmarked. Enclosed a SIGNED note from Clive Hart at end. Concordance of James Joyce's " Finnegans Wake".

Carcanet, Manchester and New York, 1986. 8vo in publishers black clothed hardcover with gilt title and fine, well preserved priceclipped jacket. 256 pages. Fine clean copy. Very rare edition, attractive copy. 1st edition thus.

Kehrer for BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries, 2008. Original silver colored hardcover, no jacket as issued. 176 pageswith 136 color illustrations. Text by Nancy Adajania, Shaheen Merali, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones in both German and English. Only minimal shelfwear to cover else clean and fine copy.  First edition. Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) creates artwork using interactive video, websites, photographs, objects, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border. The book's title, "BlindStars StarsBlind", is particularly apt for an artist who uses language in a fragmented form to talk about regions, borders or territorial claims. This catalog of over 25 mostly recent works accompanies a two-part exhibition on view simultaneously at the BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries in Berlin".

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 27, 1977 - January 2, 1978. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, January 27 - February 26, 1978. Seattle Art Museum. Large heavy hardcover with protected fine jacket. 111 pp. Illustrated. Fine. First edition, attractive copy. Catalog of the landmark exhibition, organized by John Beardsley, of contemporary earth works or land projects by artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Charles Ross, Charles Simonds and others.

Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. Unpaginated with app. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Excellent fine attractive copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook in great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is exploring with camera and though her book publications the complex bonds between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg’s projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the ‘land in-between’, the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction. For this present book Ursula Schulz-Dornburg was visiting Pagan city in Burma 1976 - now Bagan, Myanmar - , where she was photographing the holy temples, both in their landscape form and inside. Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. - A very tentative, beautiful book.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 268 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. First edition.

Copenhague: Chez Claude Philibert, 1756. 4to. Unbound and uncut with wide margins, loose pages. 29,+ (1),+ 178,+ (2) pp. Complete with engraved vignette (see photos). Well suited for rebinding. First edition. Scarce seperate printing of the important supplement to the 1755 publication "Introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, ou l'on traite de la religion, des loix, des moeurs & des usages des anciens Danois".Jean-Henri Mallet wrote this book while he was living in Denmark. Heather O’Donoghue notes in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction that Mallet “had been commissioned by the king of Denmark to write a scholarly work specifically designed to counter existing views of Scandinavia as a backward country” ´. Topics: Mythology, Norse, Old Norse poetry, Icelandic literature, Edda. ”Monumens de la mythologie” contains the first French translation of the Edda of Snorre, ”L’Edda des Islandois ou mythologie celtique”, the first ever to a non-Nordic language. The importance of Mallet’s work grew even more with the English translation, with notes and preface by bishop Thomas Percy in 1770, ”Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other Northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, or system of Runic mythology.” Inspired by it Macphearson wrote his songs of Ossian.

Paris: Julliard (Les lettres nouvelles 26), 1962. 8vo uncut with untrimmed edges in printed wraps as issued. 228 pages. Only minor wear to cover else very good well preserved clean copy. Édition originale française, tirage spécial réservé aux amis, collaborateurs et abonnés des "Lettres nouvelles", notre exemplaire le n° 59 / First French printing. Translated to French by Georges Lisowski, limited edition, numbered copy ( # 59).

New York: Wildenstein Plattner Institute in association with Yale University Press, 2017. Oversized very heavy large hardcover with jacket. 335 pages, including 374 color and 17 b&w plates. A fine copy. First edition, clean and attractive copy. The most comprehensive and definitive study of Johns' work to date.

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. 8°. Complete set in original box, only opened for inspection. This copy was opened for inspection else fine. Artist's book by German photographer Ursula Shulz-Dornburg with nine notebooks with photographs printed on cardboard, a map and a large individual print on tissue paper, plus an essay and statements by Lawrence Weiner. This important photographer is finally reaching a larger audience with the exhibition and the prize-winning book published by Mack "The Land in Between" (2018). First edition, one of 1.500 numbered copies.

Iceland: Mumbling Eye, 2021. Small 8vo hardcover. (40) pages. Text in P-language, Icelandic and English. New copy. First edition, one of only 200 numbered and signed copies. Magnús Pálsson is one of Iceland’s premier artists; a national treasure. In 1978 he was instrumental in founding The Living Art Museum (Nýló). Sculptor, sound poet, performer and inspirational teacher, Magnús comes from a strong Fluxus background, where he and his clan forged the beginnings of conceptualism and concrete poetry. As a sculptor, Magnús dealt with enigma and touch by making casts of negative spaces and trapping ephemeral moments in solidifying plaster. His signature piece from that time is a cast of the space between the three wheels of a Sikorsky helicopter and its landing field, seconds before it actually touches down. Made in 1976, this work was exhibited in Venice in 1980 when Magnús represented Iceland at the 37th Biennale. Gradually he moved away from solid material into the more fluid realm of sound and action where recently he has made works for choirs, JCB earth diggers, ghosts and children.

New York: Conde Nast, 1948. Magazine in original wraps as issued. Illustrated richly in b/w and color. Text in English. 200 pp. Some edgewear and wear to spine (see photos) else very good, clean inside, complete. Super Vogue issue with Liberman as art director and classic works by star photographers as Horst, many by Irving Penn, including the cover, Frances McLaughlin-Gill and John Rawlings among others. Also in this issue Steichen's "50 photographs by 50 photographers".

Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf & DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1992. Tall slim quarto in original hardcover with the original dustwrappers well preserved. 133 pages. With a short text in German by Dietmar Kamper. Illustrated throughout and finely printed. Only light wear to edges of jacket, now protected - see photos. Overall a fine attractive copy.  Subtitled "Acht Kalenderbauten auf dem Weg nach Santiago de Compostela" - Later reissued as "Medieval Heremitages along the Route to Santiago de Compostella" by Art Institute of Chicago, Washington 1996. This is the First edition. Scarce!

Montreal: Musee d Art Contemporain, 1978. Large oversized 4to in wraps as issued. 96 pages; in both English and French. Light wear to cover, but solid and inside clean. Complete with booklet with interviews and checklist. First edition.

MIT Press, 2010. 8vo thick hardcover, with jacket 500 pages with 62 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus, 15 halftones. Excellent clean copy. First edition, hardcover. How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices: " technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled “responsive environments”—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces."

Published by Steidl / Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2008. Large oversized very heavy hardcover with jacket. 295 pages, Illustrated throughout. Introduction Renata Adler. Essays Paul Roth and Frank Goodyear. Light shelfwear with only a hint of wear to corners, overall a fine clean copy.  1st edition. - Beautifully printed. Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering! "Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004). Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Theater Arts and began a fruitful apprenticeship with legendary editor, designer and artist Alexey Brodovitch. Avedon invigorated the staid fashion photography of the time, staging fictional tableaux and developing an unprecedented theatrical style. Moving to Vogue in 1966 and the New Yorker in 1993, Avedon continued to innovate. Extraordinarily prolific throughout his career, he produced many books, among them Nothing Personal (1964), An Autobiography (1993) and The Sixties (1999)."

Zone Books, 1986. Thick 8vo in original die-cut wraps. 468, (22) pp. Illustrated. Wrappers worn at edges (see photos). Overall a clean and acceptable solid copy. Essays on the The Contemporary City. Zone was a short lived, over-sized journal edited by Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter and designed by Bruce Mau. Inaugural double issue of the serial publication ZONE examines the physical, political, and perceptual transformations redefining the contemporary city. These transformations are explored through historical studies of transformations in the urban system, through theoretical essays which map out the evolution of related social and economic structures (such as the state, the family, and the factory), and through experimental artist projects and critical dossiers: Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter, Paul Virilo, Eric Alliez and Michel Feher, Marc Guillaume, Stanford Kwinter, Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Crary, Manuel De Landa, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anne Querrien, Didier Gille, Jean-POaul de Gaudemar, Annie L. Cot, Eric Alliez, Michel Feher, Timothy Druckrey, and Carol Squiers, John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Keith Sonnier, Gretchen Bender, Françoise Schein, Justen Ladda, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Krenneth Frampton, William Labov, Michael Piore, Peter Cook, Marc Guillaume, Peter Eisenman, Richard Serra, Daniel Libeskind, Alice Aycock, Melvin Charney, Rem Koolhaas, Raimund Abraham, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Jean-Marie Straub, Dennis Adams, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Félix Guattari, Herbert Muschamp, Sol Yurick. First edition, 2nd printing.

London: Macdonald, 1971. Publishers hardcover with dustjacket (see photos). XIV, 305 pp. Exteriorial wear and discoloring to endpapers else clean and overall a very good copy. From the Goodiepal collection, with his signature name to titlepage. First edition.- "A critical but well-researched survey of occult and spiritual thought and history from roughly 1820-1910 by Scottish historian James Webb (1946 - 1980). Webb argued, in this work and two later volumes, that there took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a revolt against the Enlightenment, which manifested in the growth of occult and mystical groups, which he also saw as underpinning the rise of darker forces, like the Nazis."

New York & London: Rizzoli, 2009. 8vo hardcover with jacket. 304 pages. Including cd. Fine clean copy. "Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others. About the Author: Alan Licht is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. He is not only responsible for important album reissues, but was a member of the cult classic NYC bands Love Child and Run On. He currently lives in New York City. Jim O’Rourke is an American musician and producer, and most widely known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. Considered an expert on experimental music, he has scored films for Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas." - An essential guide to sound art with CD with pieces from Bill Fontana ('Harmonic Bridge'), Steve Roden ('Rust'), Jean Dubuffet ('Terre foisonnante'), Destroy All Monsters ('Jam Smear'), Anthony Burr et Charles Curtis ('Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas' (1973-74) from Alvin Lucier) and Bernhard Gal ('57A').

MIT Press, 2016. Hardcover, w jacket. LII, 290 pages, with illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition.

London: Leonard Hill, 1956 (1940). 2nd edition. Tall 4to hardcover with original dustjacket, slightly worn but now protected. 27x19. 220 pp. + 38 leaves with around 145 photos and perspective renderings including 22 full-page. More than 135 drawings and plans in the text. Text in English. Very good well preserved copy with a fine provenance. From the collection of Danish architect Kay Fisker, not signed but with the date ("4/7-56") handwritten by the architect to inner cover. Mendelsohn and Kay Fisker knew each other well and Fisker was influenced much by the German Modernism of Mendelsohn and Bruno Taut whom he both visited in Germany.